Dáil debates
Wednesday, 14 November 2007
- Prelude (0 speeches)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 10.30 a.m.
- Leaders' Questions (77 speeches)
Since the general election, we have seen the true value of Fianna Fáil policies, with hospital wards closed, operations cancelled, home help hours cut back, children's dental services cancelled,...
- Ceisteanna — Questions (0 speeches)
Northern Ireland Issues.
- Northern Ireland Issues. (36 speeches)
Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his participation in the meeting of the British-Irish Council in Belfast on 16 July 2007. [19876/07]
- Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (11 speeches)
Before coming to the Order of Business I propose to deal with a number of notices under Standing Order 32. I will call on Deputies in the order in which they submitted their notices to my...
- Order of Business (78 speeches)
It is proposed to take No. 10a, motion re ministerial rota for parliamentary questions; No. 11, motion re orders of reference of committee; No. 11a, motion re establishment of Joint Committee on...
- Ministerial Rota: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Resolution of the Dáil of 14th June, 2007, setting out the rota in which questions to members of the Government are to be asked, questions for oral...
- Select Committee on Foreign Affairs: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That the Orders of Reference of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs be amended in paragraph (1)(a) by the deletion of '11 members' and the substitution therefore of '13 members'.
- Joint Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security: Motion (1 speech)
I move: (1) That a Select Committee, consisting of thirteen members of Dáil Éireann, be joined with a Select Committee to be appointed by Seanad Éireann to form the Joint Committee on Climate...
- Joint Administration Committee: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, the Standing Orders of Dáil Éireann relative to Public Business are hereby amended as follows: (1) in Standing Order 99 by the...
- Membership of Committees: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That the following members be appointed to the Committee on Members' Interests of Dáil Éireann:— Deputies Noel Grealish, Peter Kelly, Pádraic McCormack, Noel O'Flynn and Jack Wall;...
- Regional Fisheries Boards: Motion (1 speech)
I move: That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approve the following Orders in draft: (i) Regional Fisheries Boards (Postponement of Elections) Order 2007, (ii) Fisheries (Miscellaneous Commercial...
- Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Ceisteanna — Questions (Resumed) (0 speeches)
- Priority Questions (0 speeches)
Waste Management.
- Waste Management. (14 speeches)
Question 35: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will bring clarity and coherence to the national waste strategy by stating whether the number of...
- Sustainable Development Strategy. (13 speeches)
Question 36: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps his Department is taking to ensure that local authorities, in drawing up their next county...
- Register of Electors. (8 speeches)
Question 37: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will correlate the census to the electoral register at a future date; the way he will reconcile the...
- Planning Issues. (11 speeches)
Question 38: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the steps he will take to improve planning guidelines for planning authorities to address the phenomenon of...
- Social and Affordable Housing. (11 speeches)
Question 39: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government his plans to reform housing and local government legislation in order to provide more Part V social and...
- Other Questions (1 speech)
The Minister will have one minute and other Members one minute for supplementary questions, which is open to all Members.
- Private Rented Accommodation. (4 speeches)
Question 40: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 239 illegal evictions were carried out against tenants in the...
- Local Authority Auditing. (8 speeches)
Question 41: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason local authorities are establishing new audit committees; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Environmental Protection Agency. (32 speeches)
Question 42: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if local authorities, river basin districts and the Environmental Protection Agency will be enabled to recruit...
- Private Rented Accommodation (20 speeches)
Question 43: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that under the Residential Tenancies Act 2004, landlords are only...
- Adjournment Debate Matters (1 speech)
I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Joe McHugh — if the...
- Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 speeches)
Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
- Local Government (Roads Functions) Bill 2007: Committee and Remaining Stages (40 speeches)
SECTION 1.
- Transport 21: Statements. (43 speeches)
The second anniversary of the launch of Transport 21 has just passed and I welcome the opportunity to update the House on the progress made and to assure Deputies that the Government remains...
- Visit of Uruguayan Delegation. (1 speech)
Ba mhaith liom anois céad míle fáilte ó chroí a chuir roimh troscaireacht ó Poblacht na hUragua atá sa Dáil inniu. Before proceeding with business, I wish on my own behalf and on behalf...
- Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (40 speeches)
Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil don Teachta Ó Snodaigh as ucht roinnt nóiméad a thabhairt dom. Tháinig mé isteach chun ceist a chur ar an Aire, ach tá sé imithe anois. Níl fhios...
- Private Members' Business (0 speeches)
- Child Care: Motion (Resumed) (43 speeches)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Alan Shatter on Tuesday, 13 November 2007:
- Adjournment Debate. (0 speeches)
Health Services.
- Health Services. (2 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise the matter of the crisis in our hospitals with the continuing proliferation of MRSA and other fatal hospital-borne infections. I was...
- State Airports. (4 speeches)
I welcome the opportunity to raise this important matter. Media reports yesterday indicate that the business plan for Shannon Airport has been completed and forwarded to the Dublin Airport...
- Services for People with Disabilities. (3 speeches)
I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing me to raise this important issue in my constituency. I call on the Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs to provide the necessary funding...
- Fire Services. (2 speeches)
I acknowledge the truly horrific tragedy suffered by the McElhill family in Omagh yesterday. I regret the fact that I am again compelled to raise in the House the issue of a full-time fire...
